trunchbull.dev
Show HN: Trunchbull, run real models against any benchmark in your browserhttps://trunchbull.devHi HN,Today I'm showcasing Trunchbull, a benchmarking platform designed for authoring benchmarks and running them against different models. We have direct support for benchmarks that use the harbor authoring system, custom tool authoring via the vercel ai sdk and configuration limits.We've also already imported terminalbench 2.0, as a sort of proof of concept that our harbor task orchestrator works, although you currently need a paid account as we are provisioning sandbox environments.I've made several popular benchmarks publicly available for testing. You dont need an account or your credit card information to access these:[Public benchmark demos](https://trunchbull.dev/sandboxes)[GSM8K math reasoning](https://trunchbull.dev/try/gsm8k)[SkateBench](https://trunchbull.dev/try/skatebench)[ARC-Challenge](https://trunchbull.dev/try/arc-challenge)[TruthfulQA](https://trunchbull.dev/try/truthfulqa-mc1)[Medical AI Failure Atlas](https://trunchbull.dev/try/medical-ai-failure-atlas)These demos Aug 12, 2026 3:14 PM
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NASA Completes Astronaut-Deployed Science Instrument for Lunar Surfacehttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/nasa-completes-astronaut-deployed-science-instrument-for-lunar-surface/NASA has declared “wrenches down” on the first completed payload designed for Artemis astronauts to deploy on the Moon’s surface. Engineers working on NASA’s Lunar Environment Monitoring Station, or LEMS, have completed hardware development and testing and the payload is ready for its permanent home near the lunar South Pole. With the hardware complete, LEMS […]Aug 11, 2026 7:41 PM
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Dust and water spotted close to giant black holehttps://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Dust_and_water_spotted_close_to_giant_black_holeUsing the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have discovered that dust and water can form and survive surprisingly close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. The observations reveal that the evolved star IRS 3 continues to enrich its surroundings with newly formed material despite the intense radiation environment around Sagittarius A*.Aug 11, 2026 8:00 AM
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4968-4974: Rock Climbing Towards the Discontinuityhttps://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4968-4974-rock-climbing-towards-the-discontinuity/Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 31, 2026 As mentioned in the previous blog, Curiosity has been exploring a large-scale feature in Gale’s sedimentary record suspected to be an “erosional supersurface.” The “supersurface” represents a period in time when a net depositional environment changed […]Aug 11, 2026 6:50 AM
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Show HN: Bio Tools – install drug design tools easilyhttps://github.com/David-OConnor/bio_toolsI made a CLI program, Rust and Python lib that makes it easy to install and run bio / drug design tools. (structure prediction, sequence prediction, property prediction etc).You install it with `pip install bio_tools_app`, then run commands like `bio_tools install alphafold3` or `bio_tools run proteinmpnn --version` etc.This smooths over the complexities of installing these tools, which often depend on [mutually exclusive] python environments in a mix of PyPi-capable and Conda. I use it as a shared library between a python web app and a rust standalone GUI program. (Molchanica)Aug 10, 2026 3:55 PM
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NASA’s Lunar Development and Test Facility Prepares Artemis Hardware for Moonhttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/nasas-lunar-development-and-test-facility-prepares-artemis-hardware-for-moon/Before astronauts return to the Moon’s surface through NASA’s Artemis program, the hardware they depend on must first prove it can survive the unforgiving lunar environment. At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers at the Lunar Development and Test Facility are tackling one of exploration’s biggest challenges: Moon dust. Unlike sand on Earth, lunar dust is sharp, abrasive, and clings […]Aug 7, 2026 6:25 AM
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Antenna Testing for NASA’s SkyFall Missionhttps://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/antenna-testing-for-nasas-skyfall-mission/Description SkyFall ground-penetrating radar engineer Maya Román connects a coaxial cable to a test antenna in the Environmental Test Lab’s electromagnetic interference testing chamber at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The antenna was pointed up during test to minimize reflections and interferences with the antenna pattern during the measurement. Equipped with four instruments each, the […]Aug 6, 2026 5:56 PM
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Taking Flight to Prepare for Spacehttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/taking-flight-to-prepare-for-space/NASA astronaut Adam Fuhrmann (right, in yellow) prepares for a training flight aboard NASA’s WB-57 aircraft in this July 16, 2026, photo. These high-altitude flights train the crew to work in a tight environment and operate aircraft systems while in a pressure suit, preparing them for future missions to the International Space Station, Moon, or […]Aug 6, 2026 3:15 PM
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Inside the effort to show Congress what war in space looks likehttps://spacenews.com/inside-the-effort-to-show-congress-what-war-in-space-looks-like/The Space Force Association’s National Spacepower Center is building an unclassified environment for demonstrating threats to satellites and their consequences on Earth The post Inside the effort to show Congress what war in space looks like appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 31, 2026 1:30 PM
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Show HN: PMG, open source package firewallhttps://github.com/safedep/pmgHi HNI am the founder of SafeDep. We have been detecting malicious packages for a while. Coming from DevSecOps background, I always considered malicious package detection & protection to be a build stage problem. But I was wrong since the S1ngularity and early Shai-Hulud days.In 2026, we pretty much started worrying more about our own dev machines than CI/CD environment. Depending only on threat intelligence data (OSV / SafeDep / Socket / any other source) to protect our own dev machines did not feel right. We wanted to build a multi-layered protection that can get 100% visibility of OSS packages coming in, and can protect against known and “hopefully” unknown threats. That’s how Package Manager Guard (PMG) started. Core idea was simple:- Start a local proxy (localhost)- Make sure supported package managers like npm, pnpm, pip etc. goes through it- Use threat intelligence data to fail fast on known malicious packages- Apply policies like dependency cooldown as additional guardrails- AdJul 21, 2026 4:58 PM
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PRAXIS: Planetary Rings Autonomous EXploration with In-situ Samplinghttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/praxis-planetary-rings-autonomous-exploration-with-in-situ-sampling/Marco QuadrelliNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Humanity has never touched the particles of a planetary ring, but if we were able to get close enough and sample them, it will transform understanding of ring structure and origins for Saturn (dense), Uranus and Neptune (tenuous), rings of other objects such as Centaurs Chariklo and Chiron, and even early […]Jul 21, 2026 3:23 PM
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Establishing Crew Exposure Limits of Martian Dusthttps://www.nasa.gov/general/establishing-crew-exposure-limits-of-martian-dust/Background Human exploration of Mars will expose crews to a persistent, fine particulate environment whose physicochemical properties and health implications remain only partly understood. Because no samples of authentic Martian airborne dust have been returned to Earth, NASA must rely on lunar dust toxicology, Martian regolith simulants, and extensive rover/lander geochemical and mineralogical datasets to […]Jul 21, 2026 2:03 PM
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A New Compact Instrument Enables High-Fidelity Measurements of Energetic Particles on CubeSatshttps://science.nasa.gov/science-research/science-enabling-technology/technology-highlights/a-new-compact-instrument-enables-high-fidelity-measurements-of-energetic-particles-on-cubesats/A team of NASA-sponsored scientists and engineers has developed a novel approach to observing high-energy particles in the near-Earth space environment, incorporating miniaturized sensors into a compact, multi-view particle detection instrument unlike any before it. Built for NASA’s Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) CubeSat mission, the innovative instrument (also called REAL) enables more complete measurements […]Jul 21, 2026 1:00 PM
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Show HN: The0 – self-hosted runtime for trading bots, bring your own languagehttps://github.com/alexanderwanyoike/the0So Im a solo developer who has always had an itch for algorithmic trading. Initially I started off learning how to trade algorithmically with Yves Hilpisch book "Python for Algorithmic Trading" after reading that book I was hooked and started building algorithmic trading bots. Initially these were separate python scripts that I ran on my local machine. That was a bad idea cause local machines are not reliable and I wanted to run my bots 24/7 365. In my actual career im a software engineer with experience in building distributed systems and fault tolerant web applications.I wasn't interested in deploying my code to managed services like MetaTrader, CTrader or QuantConnect etc because I wanted to have full control over my code and the environment it runs in. I also wanted to be able to run my bots in any programming language I wanted, not just Python. Sometimes I wanted to prototype a bot in Python and then rewrite it in C++ or Rust for performance reasons.Many at this point would have sJul 20, 2026 1:49 PM
athletedata.health
Show HN: My triathlon coach (not a human) now texts me on iMessagehttps://www.athletedata.healthWhen I started triathlon in 2018, my “training plan” was writing down what I did in Apple Notes and watching YouTube for advice. Later, training for my first full-distance IRONMAN, I paid a coach 130eur/month with the goal to learn early so I could self-coach later. When I switched to a static plan (bought a 40-week one I’d reuse), I started spending 20-30min every Sunday reshuffling sessions around work, travel and private commitments.In early 2025, training for the 70.3 IRONMAN World Championship, I figured AI would finally fix my biggest pain point: automatically adapting my zones and plan from my activity data. But nothing out there did, and I was reluctant to build it myself (I was determined to build in B2B). A year later, once LLMs had improved a lot, I handed my Sunday planning to Claude, and it worked far better than I expected. Friends wanted to try, so I started shipping it to them.Hundreds of commits later, I believe the thing that matters most is the data layer. Most “AI cJul 16, 2026 10:39 AM
pokayoke.codes
Show HN: Pokayoke – turn code conventions into checks for agentshttps://pokayoke.codesHey HN,Something I've been tinkering with in the background is a system to manage the "messy-middle" of TypeScript toolchains. Quite often, when I'm using Biome or any of the other linter / formatters, there will be repo conventions that I want to enforce (especially with AI agents), but which aren't supported by them, such as:- Enforcing lines-of-code limits in modules - Never using custom TailWind colors - Only using lowercase underscores in filenamesLike, this is quite "random" but also bread-and-butter stuff that it's easy to think or talk about when you're working by yourself or with a few other human teammates, but I've found that agents consistently miss these conventions if I put them in an AGENTS.md file for example.I wanted to make my esoteric repo conventions less stochastic, and more deterministic. I realised that agents are adept at writing the kind of code needed to run arbitrary checks on the TypeScript AST or workspace environment -- the kind of code that is cumbersome Jul 16, 2026 9:40 AM
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Thinking: Alternate Distribution for Filmmakershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931604This idea did not in anyway start with the intention of distribution. In my 20s there were a group of 12 of us, who shared a whatsapp group and every thursday, we had a standing appointment to decide and watch the interesting movie for the week.Over the years as life happens and folks got married, moved, priorities shifted, that ritual that almost lasted a decade fell apart.During the pandemic, given that most of us had a VR headset, we reconnected and started watching movies together - we'd setup a shared stream and would have a google chat going on the side, so that we can hear each other while the movie played.VR has been surprisingly good to recreate that theatrical atmosphere - but the worst bit is sitting in a virtual cinema as the only person. Dimming the lights out (within the virtual environment so that you don't see the empty chairs) and having a video call where we can hear each other on one of the ears, kinda felt a bit like the gang was back together.Even if it hasn't beenJul 16, 2026 8:06 AM
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FCC approves first Reflect Orbital satellitehttps://spacenews.com/fcc-approves-first-reflect-orbital-satellite/The Federal Communications Commission has given its approval for a satellite that will test the ability to reflect sunlight into nighttime regions, a project sharply criticized by astronomers and environmentalists. The post FCC approves first Reflect Orbital satellite appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 11, 2026 12:29 AM
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Show HN: envapt, typed env config for decoupled TS codebases (Node to edge)https://github.com/materwelonDhruv/envaptHi HN. I'm Dhruv and I've been working on envapt for about a year now and I've FINALLY completed the roadmap I scope creeped and QA'd over the past few months. It reads environment config in TypeScript and returns the typed value instead of string | undefined, from whatever source you bind. It runs on Node, Bun, Deno, Cloudflare Workers, the browser, and well, anywhere.Most typed-env libraries have you declare every variable in one central schema and read the result from one object. That works well for a single application. Mostly. That didn't work for me because in a framework or a monorepo, decoupled packages each read their own config values, and sharing one config object across every package just doesn't make sense to me, plus some other nits.envapt does the opposite. You bind a source once at startup, and on Node/Deno/Bun it binds your .env files and process.env for you, with cascading profiles per environment. After that, ANY typed read in ANY file uses that source, and each valuJul 8, 2026 4:14 PM
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Apply now to ESA's Junior Professional Programmehttps://www.esa.int/About_Us/Careers_at_ESA/Apply_now_to_ESA_s_Junior_Professional_ProgrammeAre you passionate about space and looking to build a long-term career in the European space sector? Do you have less than three years of professional experience and a Master’s degree? The European Space Agency is offering a unique opportunity through its Junior Professional Programme (JPP), designed to cultivate the next generation of space professionals. If you dream of contributing to cutting-edge space missions and working in an international, dynamic environment, this programme is your gateway to an exciting future at ESA. Apply now to join us as a Junior Professional!Jun 30, 2026 3:30 PM
